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United States Patent | 5,647,019 |
Iino ,   et al. | July 8, 1997 |
The present invention relates to a method of identifying object images displayed in a camera image, the method comprising the step of, comparing a predetermined point mapped in the camera image in a spherical polar coordinates with a position of the camera as an origin, with a plurality of cursor windows including the object images respectively in the camera image, in which vertexes and center point of each window are mapped in the camera image in a spherical polar coordinates with a position of the camera as an origin, so that an object included in a cursor window corresponding to the predetermined point is identified.
Inventors: | Iino; Mitsutoshi (Tokyo, JP); Nakatao; Shiro (Tokyo, JP) |
Assignee: | Fuji Electric Co., Ltd. (Kanagawa, JP); Fuji Facom Corporation (Tokyo, JP) |
Appl. No.: | 069004 |
Filed: | May 28, 1993 |
May 29, 1992[JP] | 4-163837 |
Current U.S. Class: | 382/154; 345/419; 348/442; 382/282 |
Intern'l Class: | G06T 003/00 |
Field of Search: | 382/48,49,25,54,56,154,285,282,283,291,293,305,41,44 364/571.01,443,413.21 395/400,119,127 348/442 358/95 |
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